On Fri, 18 Mar, 2005 at 01:34PM -0500, Dan Easley spake thus:
>
> the mailing something to yourself to prove creation date technique, or "poor
> man's copyright", seems to have, at least in most Berne Convention countries,
> very little purpose.
>
> see http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/ for a fair
> elaboration. of course, different rules for different countries.
Probably the best way to be able to prove authorship is to keep a
deconstructed version - separate tracks, if that's how you work, or
the file format for whatever you use (Muse, a tracker, etc.)
It's still not 100% proof, but the difficulty in recreating a track
will help. The other party won't be able to show this.
Perhaps we could do with some kind of trusted third party - someone
that keeps dates, hashes, filenames and author names in case proof is
needed later. I don't know how this would work legally, but surely if
there is no association between the author and the service provider,
then it's another good piece of evidence.
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